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YouTube Music Review

02/12/2021

History The original version of YouTube Music was launched in November 2015 together with a premium subscription, YouTube Red, which covered all of the YouTube platform including the Music app. In June 2018, Google (the owners of YouTube) relaunched the service as YouTube Premium which contained YouTube and YouTube Music and a standalone subscription to YouTube Music. YouTube Premium is £11.99/month and £17.99 for a family subscription (up to 6 family members) and YouTube Music […]

Deezer Review

29/11/2021

History Deezer was launched in Paris in 2007 and claims 16 million active users with 7 million paid subscribers. The streaming service is available in 185+ countries and in 2015 launched its CD Quality streaming service originally branded as Deezer Elite but now incorporated into its Deezer Premium subscription plan. Deezer Flow was introduced in 2014 offering users a unique blend of favourite tracks with recommendations inserted into playlists to encourage music discovery and enhance […]

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TIDAL Review

26/11/2021

History TIDAL was launched in 2014 and currently does not publish subscriber numbers. Estimates from industry sources range from 1 to 5 million. In January 2017 Sprint, the US mobile carrier, bought a 33% stake in the company with the remainder owned by Jay-Z and a variety of other successful music artists, making it the first mainly artist-owned streaming service in the world. In March 2021, the financial company Square Inc acquired a majority interest […]

Primephonic Review

05/10/2021

Update 05/10/2021: At the end of August 2021, Primephonic was acquired by Apple and was closed down. Its services will be relaunched as part of Apple Music but no date has been set for the rollout. For further information on this go to Apple buys classical musical music streamer Primephonic. […]

Classical music front-end for Spotify

23/05/2020

Concertmaster is an open source classical music front-end for Spotify. It uses Open Opus data and combines it with automated analysis of Spotify’s own metadata in order to create an improved user experience for classical music. It relies on crowdsourced curation as well for additional verification and refinement. Concertmaster runs on Android phones and Mac, Windows, ChromeOS and Linux computers. Due to Spotify restrictions, it doesn’t run on iPads and iPhones but a Concertmaster app […]

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How to customize your Spotify profile

14/03/2020

Spotify has published updated details on how to customize your Spotify profile with guides for both mobile and desktops which allow you to update everything from your photo to your username and create a personalized music page unique to you. How to change your Spotify profile picture (Note: you can’t upload any images that violate any copyright, trademark, or personal image rights. Further information can be found here.) On Android and iOS smartphones and tablets […]

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Amazon Music Review

24/10/2019

Amazon’s first started selling digital music in 2008 and became the first music store to sell music with digital rights management (DRM) from many of the major record companies. Streaming started with a forerunner of Amazon Prime in 2014 and Amazon Music Unlimited, its full catalogue streaming service was launched in late 2016. […]